Published: 04 January, 2016

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Dimethyl Sulfate (DMS) is a diester of methanol and sulfuric acid, is mainly used as a strong methylating agent in organic synthesis. Dimethyl sulfate is a colorless oily liquid with a slight onion-like odor and is soluble in aromatic solvents, water, and alcohol. It has its applications in personal care, pharmaceutical and in chemical industry. It is mainly used in manufacturing drugs, perfumes, water treatment chemicals, surfactants, pesticides, softeners, dyes, fabric, and photographic chemicals etc. DMS also used in separation of mineral oils and under certain conditions, it is used as a solvent, catalyst, stabilizer and sulfonating agent. Dimethyl sulfate acts as a reagent for methylation of amines, thiols, and phenols. Due to its cost effectiveness and high reactivity DMS has greater applications compared to other methylating agents.

Global demand for dimethyl sulfate market is estimated to experience strong growth, due to its wide variety of applications across industries. An increase in demand for products which use DMS, as in fabric industry it used in manufacture of fabric softeners, in dye industries used in manufacture of various dyes and in pharmaceutical research industries, it acts as an intermediate chemical. DMS is also used in perfume, agriculture and various chemical manufacturing industries.

This report provides information on dimethyl sulfate market size for the year 2014-2016, and forecast of the same for year 2021. It also focuses on market drivers, challenges, restraints, market dynamics, growth indicators, competitive landscape, potential growth opportunities and other key aspects with respect to dimethyl sulfate market.

North America and Europe remain the potential markets for dimethyl sulfate due to availability of numerous water treatment plants and government orders to reuse and recycle wastewater disposed from chemical manufacturing companies in these regions. Industrial growth in these regions is also driving the growth for DMS. Growth in agriculture sector in Asia Pacific region mainly in China and India is experiencing strong growth in the pesticide and agrochemicals market. Therefore, with growing demand from pesticide and agrochemical markets, is driving DMS market. Toxicity of DMS is expected to become a major challenge for the global market.

This report identifies global DMS on the basis of treatment type and regional market as follows:

DMS market is segmented based on applications

This report is further segmented based on potential markets for DMS. A detailed analysis by region – United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Rest of the World (RoW), has been provided in this report

This report looks into all the major companies operating in the DMS market. Some of the major companies’ profiles are as follows: